New Urbanism

http://www.newurbanism.org/

New Urbanism provides ways for people who live in urban areas to keep their impact on the environment to a minimum. It provides solutions to decrease global warming, to counter peak oil, and deal with climate change. This website explains that by creating urban areas with more interconnecting streets and more narrow roads that trafic will disperse and people will find walking much more feasible. The overall goal of New Urbanism is to create areas that enrich, uplift, and inspire the human spirit and intern the quality of life in areas will grow. Mixing in green transportation and energy efficient technologies the area will lessen its impact on the environment. I think this website is a good concept but will be hard to integrate in large cities like Philadelphia. New Urbanism requires too much change for large cities to be able to accomplish and is likely smaller cities will get a better results